Amazon Studios announced
today the development of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens into a
six-episode miniseries, set to premiere in 2018 on both Amazon Prime and the
BBC.
"Almost 30 years
ago, Terry Pratchett and I wrote the funniest novel we could about the end of
the world, populated with angels and demons, not to mention an 11-year-old
Antichrist, witchfinders, and the four horsepeople of the Apocalypse,"
Gaiman said. "It became many people’s favorite book. Three decades later,
it’s going to make it to the screen. I can’t think of anyone we’d rather make
it with than BBC Studios, and I just wish Sir Terry were alive to see it."
Gaiman, who is set to write all six episodes of the
miniseries and act as its showrunner, will have Doctor Who’s Caroline Skinner, Going Postal’s Rod Brown, Fleabag’s Chris Sussman, and Choosing
to Die’s Rob Wilkins as executive producers.
Book
Synopsis:
"In The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the
world's only completely accurate
book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end
on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So
the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are
falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to
Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom
have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather
fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
And
someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist..."
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